We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

I accept the blissful gifts of beautiful flowers and plants.

Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith…. It’s superstition.

Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

Daddy, I'm always in prayer because part of my brain, through the Holy Spirit, is in constant communication with Heaven [God]. My mouth is for talking to people.

I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion.

Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.